WGU C722 Project Management - UNIT 7 TEST- Answered

_______________activities are activities that can be performed simultaneously because they involve different resources. - ANSWER-Concurrent Decreasing ____________________ is possible by Inspecting tasks to see if they can be made shorter. - ANSWER-Critical Path To provide a unique representation of each item on the network diagram, you can use which of the following? Work Breakdown Structures Sequencing requirements Budgets Label nodes - ANSWER-Label Nodes Between tasks you can insert _________________ to help shorten the overall duration. - ANSWER-Lead Time The ___________________ used to complete project tasks can come from within or outside of the organization hosting the project. - ANSWER-Resources ___________________________ depend on project deliverables, project constraints, milestones, budgets, etc. - ANSWER-Task Relationships The rows down the left margin in a ____________________ display key activities or stages of the project in sequence. - ANSWER-GNATT Chart What is the concept that suggests the more often a person completes a task, the better he or she becomes at completing that task called? Learning curve Beta distribution Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) One-point estimate - ANSWER-Learning Curve Which of the following is the logical relationship where the successor task cannot be completed until the first task is completed? Start-to-start relationships Finish-to-finish relationship Finish-to-start relationships Start-to-finish relationships - ANSWER-Finish-to-finish relationship You can reduce critical path by eliminating _____________ that may not be required to achieve the desired end result. - ANSWER-Task The goal of ___________________________ is to get the project delivered faster. - ANSWER-Schedule compression As the project team develops the activity ____________________, they may divide activities or identify additional activities that need to be added to the WBS. - ANSWER-duration estimates A _______________________ is when you start assigning dates based on the earliest start date, adding dates based on estimates for each task in the diagram. - ANSWER-forward pass Which of the following is critical for creating accurate and realistic project plans and schedules? Task relationships Finish-to-start relationships Successor activities Predecessor activities - ANSWER-Task relationships Working to________________________ is the first step to defining the critical path. - ANSWER-identify all the deliverables, activities, & tasks Which of the following can be inserted between tasks to help shorten the overall duration? Slack time Lag time Float time Lead time - ANSWER-Lead Time Lead time or _____________________________extends a link backward or forward so that the successor task starts earlier or later than it otherwise would. - ANSWER-lag time Which of the following approaches use basic statistics to account for uncertainty in activity duration estimates? Probabilistic duration estimation Deterministic duration estimation Scoring model Project plan - ANSWER-Probabilistic duration estimation